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Putting On a Show For the Google Streetview Camera
Urban Garlic writes "The community surrounding Samsonia Way in Pittsburgh were ready when the Google StreetView car arrived, and staged a 21st-century public art project. Also celebrated in this Washington Post article, and Kelso's Corner, which also has a collection of public art in StreetView."
1. Finish Arts degree
2. Wait for google Street view van
3. ??
4. Profit
This does show how much being online is part of everyone culture now. Back in the 90's putting a web page with your pictures and we would have easily called you narcissist and think of you as a jerk.
But now, euh... no sorry, nevermind.
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Sorry, but you're a prude. There's nothing wrong with the human body.
Boy, you really want people to, um, read the article, don't you?
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Just getting people to look at street view and think "Maybe they did this on purpose because they saw the van coming" is great. Don't trust everything you see is a good lesson for those who would use this technology against you.
Don't get so complicated. Just lift your shirt and flash the google van. (what the heck, even if you're a female...do it! :-)
Or do some street theatre... I suggest zombies with guns would be real cool. (ob slashdot: or dress up as sharks with frikken lasers)
This is slashdotted, maybe we could have the link in google maps directly ?
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I hate to break this to you; but most children have logged hundreds of hours with partially nude women before they hit kindergarden. Somehow, only a few of them grow up to be serial killers.
What's wrong with kids seeing partially nude women? Most kids have seen partially nude women regularly when they were infants, and nearly everybody has seen a vagina up close once, and I mean really up close.
Great work, B. Kinsley:
... 'cause I think the partially nude woman in the car at the back of the scene was a bit unnecessary
Don't forget to look up. The shot of the people screwing on the balcony is priceless.
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It's teh internets. I'm afraid they have already seen far worse.
By "public art", I was expecting more gaping anii.
Although one can argue that exposing kids to sex scenes can be harmful to them, (partially, even) nudity does not equals automatically to sex, you know...
This will really put Shelbyville on the map!
Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
I hope it isn't. Or at least have it an option.
It would ruin the feeling of wandering around streets and getting an idea of somewhere.
Sort of defeats the point of the system.
Geez, don't remind me! My four month old is probably at home at this moment with my topless wife!
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Hell, we were BORN out of a partially nude woman, I don't see what the problem is here.
Geez, don't remind me! My four month old is probably at home at this moment with my topless wife!
That's it. I'm calling child protective services. It's clear that your wife is not fit to be a mother.
This guy's the limit!
if *everyone* now dresses up their streets as other streets when the google street view car arrives then google will show it all wrong and Washington will look like Moscow and Moscow will look like London and we can all have a laugh and we can go to sleep at night feeling we've done something useful.
You've seen parts of your mum your father will never get to see.
Unless she particularly likes surgical steel.
*Cringe*
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My four month old is probably at home at this moment with my topless wife!
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Pictures are also important.
Can't find any zombies... not interested. This is Pittsburgh after all!
Breastfeeding? Hello? Do you know anything about the human reproductive process?
Or he has an eye on his tongue.
... have logged hundreds of hours with partially nude women...
It is quite apparent that the number of hours you've "logged with partially nude women" is largely consistent of WoW characters or RedTube.
Or are you making reference to a certain practice made popular in Germany?
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How do people know when the Google car will be scheduled to assimilate their neighborhood? Is there some web site that shows the schedule?
nearly everybody has seen a vagina up close once, and I mean really up close.
I was about to say something stupid and ask why you said "nearly everybody" but then I realized "oh yeah, c-sections" and then I realized that it is possible for some of the people here to have actually never had any contact with a vagina whatsoever.
As a side note, when you are being forced through the vagina in a natural birth, are you even capable of "looking" at that point?
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
He said wife, not girlfriend.
I'm not not licking toads.
I hate to admit it but I was fibbing - there is no nude woman in the picture --- oh how I hate 4chan and the LOLs mentality it has instilled in me ...
I was sort of expecting more, but kind of neat since I don't usually use street view. For a direct link of the street view (just go west): http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sampsonia+Way+Pittsburgh&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=a5WRSaDMN4qhtwe_8ojZCw&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.457093,-80.010843&panoid=KZ4VB6PWohXbrKaJNdNEPg&cbp=12,273.6054235095123,,0,5
One of the first things I noticed in this scene, is the face blurring which is supposed to protect privacy, does not work. It's obvious that it's in use, there are a few faces blurred. But the majority of them are clearly visible.
Duh, of course not. He's posting to Slashdot...
I think the partially nude woman ... not being a prude or anything but kids
"The Kids" - standard excuse for the prudes and the lovers of censorship. Sorry, doesn't compute. It is usually the ones that have issues about watching partially, or fully for that matter, nude people of either gender that eventually run into their work-place and shoot everybody. People with a healthy attitude towards nudity rarely do.
Somehow, only a few of them grow up to be serial killers.
Pretty sure that if you study the matter, the time spent around partially nude people is inversely proportional to your propensity to shoot up a school-yard later in life.
"Nothing to see here. Move along."
Have gnu, will travel.
Just curious...
Why was a blog that just did a copy/paste of a Washington Post article that was in the summary linked to in the summary? Isn't that a bit redundant or were the owners of the blog looking to get hits?
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
How can you make a comment like this and not publish a link?!?!?!?
you made me loose 15 minutes of my work time, you insensitive cloud!
You can do the math yourself, but I think "most children" is a valid classification.
Show a man some news, distract him for an hour. Show a man some mod points, distract him for the rest of his life.
I'm trying to decide if this should turn me on or off...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=googleplex&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&ei=N6uRSdjJApjAtgfT6oDYCw&cd=2&ll=37.421751,-122.083758&spn=0,359.996513&t=h&z=18
Easy. I just did.
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Hummm... I don't see it...
To get your picture on the web.
One can argue that all nudity is sex. One can even sue you for denying it. One can jump off a bridge for all I care.
I think you are confusing "public art" and "pubic art".
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Or as the BBC show coupling said in the Lesbian Spank Inferno episode : Halfway down the birth canal we're already enjoying the view
Do a youtube search for the clip if you haven't seen the show - it's worth it.
The title of this story could have just as easily been: Google street view camera car disrupts local marching band practice in Pittsburgh. That is to say, I really wasn't impressed by their show of creativity and 'art'. Bah humbug.
My jaw dropped when I saw this article. I lived on Sampsonia Drive nine years ago, which is incredible, because it's one of the shortest little streets in Pittsburgh.
I'm amazed that there is a custom Slashdot spelling even for such a tiny little one-way street in Pittsburgh. You remove the "p" from the middle. What do you put it? I guess you can just stick it behind a colon, like this :P
My girlfriend and I were paying a rent of $400/month to live on this street. It's in a really poor part of the North Side of Pittsburgh. We were the only white people in the neighborhood I think, but even though we stuck out a little, this was the nicest neighborhood I ever lived in. Everyone was really pleasant; it's a fun little place. I'm totally not surprised that they would arrange something like this there. Plus, $400. That was sweet even back then.
Here are some 8-9 year old pictures of it:
A pretty sunset where you unfortunately can't really see anything...
Facing eastward with my 86 T-Bird in the foreground
Facing westward
Facing eastward again.
And BTW this wasn't the first time I've looked at the Google Maps street view on Sampsonia. These people weren't there last time.
You do realise we all come out of a vagina right?
but then my new Google-car-ad-spamming business proposal would be dead from the start. There's an awful lot of sandwichmen I have to pay to be in the right spot at the right time.
The main article is slashdotted but the Washington Post article suggested googling "Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh" and I don't see anything artsy. I did find two guys having a sword fight at the corner of Sampsonia Way and Federal St. though...
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My favorite streetview scene would be this picture of my friend's car Sharky. This link brought to you by sharky, driving down the property value of its neighborhood since 2006.
> "not to be prude"
The word you're looking for is "sexually repressed Puritan". For God's sake, I was scanning the view for five minutes and couldn't even see what you were talking about.
In any case, there's a wonderful country where all women are kept covered by heavy black blankets so you can't see any of their skin at all, except their eyes. It's called "Iraq". Don't forget to write!
Well it's down now I hope you're happy, I didn't get to see it. Anyone have a static link to what I missed? xD
Why is common sense called that if it's not common?
Cloud! Cloud? I'm an insensitive cloud? How dare you! ... not me sir/madam ...
I have never been a cloud... all fluffy and (even worse) white and full of either recycled urine or recycled tears
I am, and always will be, a clod
What's with the missing section halfway down the street, after the garage band?
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fixed:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=504+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+PA,+United+States&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.095668,78.398437&ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=40.456949,-80.011593&panoid=C4I-QLkZJoT1SHXslK5f7Q&cbp=12,137.1463727456883,,1,14.737390683235331&ll=40.456973,-80.011475&spn=0,359.980774&z=16&iwloc=addr
Except for all of those who were born via C-section...
I'm always positive; it's my nature.
Where, I can't find it :(
*whoooosh*
I assume this, since the image is no longer available: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=504+Sampsonia+Way,+Pittsburgh,+PA,+United+States&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&split=0&gl=us&ei=25GTSejTLYHasAPE1ei4Bw&ll=40.456989,-80.011368&spn=0,359.98071&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr&layer=c&cbll=40.456973,-80.011467&panoid=vKkgt4i4COgi3L96IqwLQw&cbp=12,175.8364654136369,,0,-9.87482861627304
unless the perverted father has taken into slavery that poor woman to breed and (oh god) brestfeed babies of him
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